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iPad “review”

Daniel — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:13:59 +0000

My lovely wife bought me an iPad for Christmas. Truly a great surprise!

But what are my thoughts on it now that I’ve had it almost a month?

In brief “I love it”.

Why is the bigger question.

I’m always doing things on my phone like email, browsing etc. Having the iPad makes life much easier to cope with than before. The iPad email client is great and allows easy access to my email from anywhere I can get a wifi connection
Browsing is “okay”. The iPad, like the iPhone, do not support flash, so it is crippled on many websites. But after reading several arguments about why they don’t, I’m still on the fence.
Size and portability. It’s so much lighter than a laptop, I really enjoy it and 90% of my work can be done on it, so I’m good there.
Programs: I am “thrifty” and hardly buy anything, and I’ve had no reason to with my iPad yet.
Games (yes programs): They have some really cool games my kids love and so do I.
Netflix: Ok still another program, but it’s great being able to just haul it around and watch whatever I want in the house (Battlestar’s on Netflix now)

Overall I’m very pleased with it. I love having it at work to help me deal with emails during the day. I play games with my kids, and it is really convenient. I hear rumors of the iPad 2 with front and back camera’s, but honestly I have no desire to have those features. I love the one I have.

If my wife reads this, Thanks Hun!

Funny Christmas Stats

Daniel — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:52:42 +0000

In February of 2007 I made a post that I hope helped some people solve a problem with their Wii about a connection issue. Well apparently a ton of people are still having that problem, because my traffic from Google for that has sky rocketed.

Nintendo Wii 52030 Error

Check out the post, nothing special, just basic help!

Nintendo Wii Wireless Connection issues 52030 error resolved

Daniel — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:00:39 +0000

Some one may find my blog and find something useful in the post. I tried to hook up my Nintendo Wii and kept getting a 52030 error. Now you search on the web and everyone says the same thing.

Upgrade your firmware
Set it to Channel 1 or 11
if already on 1 or 11 change it to the other
You should be fine

Well that didn’t work.

What I ended up doing to finally get it to work is all of the above then I switched from WEP to WPA2 (AES). And sure enough it work. Hope this helps someone else.

Wii

Daniel — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:32:15 +0000

For my 20th birthday (or a anniversary of it) my wife got me a Nintendo Wii. Yes I want it for me, and I also wanted it for my kids. And you know what? I’m really glad I have it. My kids stand up and move vs. sitting in front of the TV or Computer. The first day I had it my daughter turned to me and said, “Daddy can you wipe off my forehead? I’m all sweaty”. So that’s good. What are the benfits of the Wii? It’s the first true next generation system I’ve seen since the Nintendo came out. Yeah sure the PS2, XBox, 360 and PS3 have all taken huge steps in graphics and performance, but the Wii takes huge steps in playability. The games for the PS3 are no different (yet) than those on the 360 or PS2. While the Wii has no real comparison. Heck I haven’t even played anything other than a handful of games, the 5 sports games that came with it, and Zelda.

“So what you swing a controller at the screen, it’s not even HD!?!” … You’re right, good news neither is my TV. If I were going to go out and buy an HD TV, HD DVD or Blue Ray then I’d get a PS3 since it’s cheaper than a Blue Ray player, but I’m not so I won’t. Nintendo has truly made me reconsider them as the top of the industry. They fell behind with their Game Cube and N64, but came out of the gate’s swinging with the Wii. I’ve only had issues getting the wireless hooked up and working. (AND YES I SWITCHED to Channel 11 or 1, so if you have a solutions other than that one, post it ).

With seeing the Wii bringing you more into the game what is it going to be like in 10 years? With new technology being introduced daily, I can only imagine. Intel showed off an 80 Core Processor today, so now think of having all of your movement tracked. Turning and facing a monster, wearing an interactive head set vs. hooking up to a TV.. the possibilities are endless.